On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 08:18:04AM -0400, James Carlson wrote: > If "for human eyes only" is the goal, then you can already do what > this project proposes, but with security, by "ssh hostname kstat". If > you really don't care about security, enable rsh and use that. :-/
Er, using rsh means caring a lots less about security than what this project proposes! > It is indeed "simple" -- I'll grant the submitter that it's obviously > the simplest way to implement such a mechanism -- but it's > architecturally suspicious on the grounds that it's building atop an > interface in a way that the designers of that interface didn't > anticipate. It's analogous to scraping messages out of syslog files. I think Erik will need to version the RPC protocol everytime that the internal structures of libkstat change. I doubt we'll see high rates of new versions of those structures. Nico --
